Talking Animals??

How in the world can I make a animals mouth move, like if they were talking, but exactly, how I need them to talk, not like, just recording them then speaking with their mouth movements, I need to control it!

Thanks in advance

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@HIS_Films As I understand it from DVD extras on such movies, if the animal is a real live critter they use some type of modeling software to recreate the animals mouth CG-wise and morphing through speech patterns that approximate the way we humans move our mouths to shape words. If you watch extremely close in some of these example movie types you can sort of see the coloration difference where model and mammal meet. All in all, it must be a very labor intensive process. But I am no expert; just what I've pieced together to understand the process. Now, in the olden days when I was little (like when Mister Ed ran on TV not in reruns!) they used a thing mono-filament wire attached to his mouth to pull his lip around when he was supposed say something. Not very creature friendly and no way it would be allowed today.

@LanceTBrown&nbsp; I think a lot of times we see this in use today it's done by morphing the mouth shapes on either a real animal or a CG one. If you don't have something like Crazy Talk that lets you morph the mouth shapes, I think it would be simplier to just use a CG model and animate the mouth with keyframes. But that's just a quick take on the situation.

@HIS_Films&nbsp; When I answered this current thread question, I had completely forgotten the subject had come up in the recent past and I commented to you then. I was glad to see I didn't contradict myself between answers